The official monthly enewsletter for Adventist-laymen's Services & Industries,bringing news, information, and important announcements to ASI members and supporters everywhere.

ASI Lake Union Spring Fellowship

This weekend, April 18-19, 2014, the ASI Lake Union chapter will hold its annual Spring Fellowship at the Crowne Plaza by the Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Speakers include Dan Jackson, Don Livesay, Rodlie Ortiz, Rich Aguilera, and more. All the meetings will be video streamed LIVE at www.asilakeunion.org

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Creation & the Gospel

"Any gospel that leaves creation out, or does not preach the creative power of God, as seen in the things that He has made, and which does not comfort men by that power, calling upon them ever to keep it in mind as their only source of strength, is ‘another gospel,’ which is simply no gospel at all."

Alyssa Jeffers has joined the ASI National team as administrative secretary at the ASI office in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Before joining the ASI team, Jeffers served for more than three years as a church secretary. She was born and raised in Maryland and is thrilled to serve and represent the Lord through Adventist-laymen's Services & Industries.

Jeffers comes to us just in time to help prepare for the 2014 ASI International Convention, which will be held August 6 to 9 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Registration is now open. Online registration is available on our website.

The 2014 ASI Mid-America Convention kicked off Thursday evening, March 27, at the John Knox Pavilion in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, with welcome messages from ASI President Frank Fournier and ASI Mid-America President Jesse Johnson. While speaker Scott Ritsema gave a special presentation to more than 30 youth, approximately 200 people in the main auditorium were blessed by Doug Batchelor’s opening presentation. The convention continued until Sunday, March 30. Read more

Thank You for the Bread

Ramon was a very quiet child. He had lost his family at a very young age and lived in a children’s village for orphaned and abandoned children, operated by International Children’s Care. He tried to cooperate with everything he was asked to do and did his best to fit in with the family.
Meal time was his favorite time of the day. He would sit at the table and anxiously wait for his house mother to serve the food. One day, the house mother noticed how Ramon would save some of his food and take it back to his room. She spoke with him about it... Read more

ASI Ministry Heralds Creation—A Vital End-Time Issue

For more than 20 years, Creation Illustrated magazine has shared God’s transforming power through life-changing, character-building parables with Adventist schools and teachers in North America, as well as with prisoners, homeschoolers, hospital chaplains, ASI member organizations and their employees, and subscribers in all 50 states and 30 foreign countries—including those of other faiths that make up about 55 percent of the magazine’s non-Adventist readership. Read more

Water for Life Guatemala began its 2014 ministry season with a team of more than 23 volunteers who helped clean apartments, service equipment, replace vehicle batteries, inflate vehicle tires, and service 16 engines. Seventeen wells were also drilled at numerous sites, averaging 150 feet deep.

In December 2013, a team drilled a well in Las Lajas at a campground for the North Guatemala Mission of Seventh-day Adventists. In March, a special convocation was held there, with more than 800 people in attendance. A large, 90’ by 125’ building had been constructed, with bathrooms attached. Additional bathrooms were installed on the surrounding acreage, as well as a solar pump and several thousand feet of water and sewer pipe and sewer effluent line that will eventually serve the WFL office, which is still in the planning stages.

Evangelistic meetings and medical clinics were held at many of the WFL drill sites, building synergy and collaborative relationships between WFL and local residents, as well as with various government leaders. Those evangelistic efforts were built on a foundation laid by two Bible workers already working in the region. As a result, 13 people were baptized, with others to follow when they complete more Bible studies.

ASI special offering funds provided much-needed support for WFL’s 2014 mission to Guatemala. More stories will be told about that project in a future issue of Inside ASI magazine.